Magda Biernat, Charlie's workshop at Alaska Wilderness Arts and Taxidermy, North Pole, Alaska, USA (2013)

In the foreground is a man carrying a long pole over his left shoulder. He wears a blue hat and brown coat and black trousers with gaiters. His mouth is open as if he was calling o...

This double-sided panel painting is one wing of a large altarpiece. During Lent the wings would have been closed, concealing the brightly painted panels and displaying only the mon...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...